92. Picture Book by The Kinks 1968

One of my earliest memories of this song was playing my tennis racquet to it in the front room of our house in Blackburn South. The song was perfect for standing in front of the mirror and making shapes. Everyone else was doing it to Cream and Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath but for me it was the great rhythms of Dave Davies, Pete Quaife and Mick Avory.

That it came from an album I couldn't get my hands on made it even better. This was the kind of song I wanted to write. It just moves. And it's got those great harmonies that turns out were partly Ray's wife singing.
I guess this was around 1969 that I first heard it. In music at Box Hill High School we had to bring in a record and talk about why we liked it. I took this in. I stood alone.
It took a hell of a long time for the Kinks to be really appreciated for what they are. One of the really great bands of all time.
...and some people still don't have a clue who they are!!!